Shoe-polishing device.



No. 890,043. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

J. M. GBNAGK.

SHOEPOLISHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27. 1907.

JOSEPH MARUEL GENAGK, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-POLISHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed. June 27, 1907.} Serial No. 381,029.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn MAnonL Gn- NAOK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of IIampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Polishing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shoe-polishing devices, and has for its object to provide an article in which the usual box of paste material, the dauber, and the polishing element are all conveniently arranged for use and secured in compact form to the handle element.

In the drawings forming part of this appli-.

cation,- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement showing the box of paste removed from its securing support and the mode of applying the paste to the dauber after such removal. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on line 22, of Fig. 3, while Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the completed device.

Referring to these drawings in detail, a designates the handle element or block portion to which the other elements are suitably secured in a fixed position, the handle element or block being preferably made of wood for lightness and ease of manufacture although other materials may of course be employed.

Secured to the under side of the handle element or block a is the strip 5 of the polishing element, and preferably I use sheepskin with the wool side outward, although I do not limit myself to the use of this particular material. The strip 6 is attached by means of the nails 6 In order to form an elastic backing for the polishing element 6, I secure to the handle or block portion a a pad of felt c, as clearly shown, which pad is preferably composed of layers with escalloped or curving edges, as shown in Fig. 1. The upper surface of the block a has a cut away or shoulder portion d for receiving the usual circular box 6 which contains the paste material 6 This box, as shown, is placed in an inverted position in the cut-away portion (Z that is, with the bottom part c of the box upward, while the cover fthereof is permanently secured to the block a by means of nails or other fastening devices g. The cutaway portion d is of such dimension that the end of the box 6 when secured therein is substantially flush with the end of the block a, as shown in the draw- Secured to the other end of the handle element or block a and oppositely located in relation to the box 6 is a block or disk-shaped piece it to which the dauber element 7', is secured preferably by means of glue. This element being simply a piece of thick felt so that when in use a uniform application of the paste to the shoe may be made.

In using the polishing device, the construction of which has been described, the operator simply removes the box containing the paste 0 from its coverby grasping the bottom portion of the box, first inverting the device so that the paste will not fall from the box. It is then applied to the dauber i in the usual manner as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and evenly and uniformly applied to the shoe thereby. It will be observed from this inverted arrangement of the box 0 that the operator can, with less effort, readily remove the box portion from the cover, (on account of a greater surface being presented by the cylindrical surface of the box) for the operator to grasp than by removing the cover from the box, which is the usual practice.

It is well known in this class of devices that it is almost impossible to remove by hand the cover from the paste-box on account of the close fitting of the same; but by inverting the box and securing the cover to a base-piece so that the operator grasps the bottom portion of the box with one hand and the handle portion a with the other, it is found to be a comparatively easy operation to separate the elements 6 and f of the box and at the same time it permits the user to firmly force the box portion into the cover whereby the paste is effectively prevented from becoming dry since it is very necessary that the cover should be tightly forced on the box to form an air-tight joint.

It will be readily seen from this description that I have produced a shoe-polishing device that is compact in its arrangement of operative elements, one that is convenient to use, and at the same time affords a means for keeping the paste from evaporation, as clearly set forth.

What I claim, is

In a polishing device of the class described,

a handle element, a polishing element sei which is secured to the handle element and cured to one side of the same, the opposite the bottom portion being uppermost, as deside having prernanently attached thereto scribed.

and at one end a dauber element and at the JOSEPH MARCEL GENACK. opposite end a receptacle for containing the Witnesses: p0 ishing material, said receptacle compris- WM. H. CHAPIN,

ing a box-like structure, the cover portion of K. I. CLEMoNs. 

